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Stefan Falke : set photos for Ludwig II and portraits of actress Sabin Tambrea, beach report on Rockaway Beach for ADAC magazine, new cover for Catherine Russell, Fake Polaroids and his La Frontera project
PHOTOGRAPHY · 13.02.2012

Stefan Falke : set photos for Ludwig II and portraits of actress Sabin Tambrea, beach report on Rockaway Beach for ADAC magazine, new cover for Catherine Russell, Fake Polaroids and his La Frontera project

Stefan Falke stayed in Bavaria and Austria to the end of 2011. He photographed the set photographs and marketing motifs for 'Ludwig II', a film by Peter Sehr and Marie Noelle for Warner Bros and Bavaria Pictures. The photographs are still under lock and key, but a series with the main lead protagonist Sabin Tambrea was produced during the shoot. The film will hit the cinemas by the end of 2012.

He also had the pleasure of working in his hometown of choice New York for the ADAC travel magazine. His series about Rockaway Beach in Queens and photographs of musicians in New York subway stations were published in New York magazine.

Stefan Flake photographed the fourth cover for the Jazz/Blues singer Catherine Russell. The highly praised and very busy musician also sings with Steely Dan. Her new solo album 'Strictly Romancin'' will be available in store from the 14th of February.

His series of iPhone photographs are called 'Fake Polaroids' and were exhibited last week at Apple 5th Avenue, Apple’s main headquarters in New York. The German Welt Kompakt magazine has also shown an interest in the photographs.

He is currently preparing for an exhibition of his long-term project 'La Frontera' in Tijuana/Mexico on the 9th of March. The exhibition features pictures by artists working on the borderline between the US-Mexican states. With this project, the photographer wants to show that despite the difficult situation in the border regions and the predominant occurrence of violence and a borderline made from steel, people on both sides engage in an active artistic and cultural life, exerting a positive influence within this challenging context.

For this project, Stefan Falke plans to travel along the entire border and take photographs. Stefan will also hold a three-day photography workshop parallel to his exhibition on Tijuana.

Credits

Client
ADAC ReisemagazineCatherine RussellWelt Kompakt
Usage
La Frontera project by Stefan Falke
Location
Hainburg, AustriaRockaway Beach, Queens, New YorkNew YorkTijuana/Mexico
Model
Sabin TambreaCatherine Russell

About Stefan Falke Photography

Reportage photographer Stefan Falke was born in Paderborn, Germany, in 1956. After abandoning his civil engineer studies he worked as a photographer's assistant in Munich and later as a silk screen printer in Hamburg. He moved to New York in the mid 80s for a while where he photographed for German and Austrian magazines. After his return to Hamburg in the early 90s, German film studios hired him as a set photographer for movies filmed mostly in Europe and Africa. He credits his time working on movie sets with “my most important time for becoming a working photographer". Besides his assignments he started a long-term photography project about a stilt walking school in the Caribbean titled "Moko Jumbies: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad", which was exhibited at the prestigious photo festival "Visa Pour L'Image" in Perpignan/France in 2004 and published in New York as a book with the same title.

 

He again lives and works in New York City. For his ongoing project “LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US – Mexican Border” he photographed about 200 artists on both sides of the 2000 miles long US-Mexico border in order to put a spotlight on the vibrant cultural activities of this bi-national region which is portrayed by politicians and the international media mostly with the sole focus on violent crime and illegal immigration. This project so far resulted in 18 solo exhibitions (in Germany, the United States and Mexico) and a book, LA FRONTERA, published by Edition Faust (Germany), and numerous interviews and publications, among them the New York Times, BBC, Wired, Huffington Post …. and many others (see list below).

 

His most current project about the streets of New York during the pandemic resulted in the book (publ. 2021) titled Keep Going New York !!

 

Stefan Falke's photographs were presented by international galleries, photo festivals and museums: Visa Pour l'Image, Perpignan (France), Photoville, Brooklyn (USA), Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg (Germany), Festival Tijuana Interzona (Mexico), IMAS - International Museum for Art and Science, McAllen, Texas (USA), The Cervantes Institute, Cultural Institute of Spain, Frankfurt (Germany), Galeria 409, Brownsville, Texas, (USA), The Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C. (USA), CEART Mexicali, (Mexico), Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York City (USA) ... just to name a few (see detailed list below).

 

He became a member of the German photo agency "laif / agentur fuer photos und reportagen" in 1999 (Laif is represented by Redux in the US).

GoSee : stefanfalke.com

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